Re: rcu: frequent rcu lockups

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Fri Mar 13 2015 - 13:39:52 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:07:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 08:32:05AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > On 03/12/2015 08:28 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > On 03/11/2015 07:16 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:06:40PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >>>> >> > On 03/11/2015 07:01 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> >>>> > >> With the commit I didn't hit it yet, but I do see 4 different WARNings:
> > >>>>>> >>> > > I wish that I could say that I am surprised, but the sad fact is that
> > >>>>>> >>> > > I am still shaking the bugs out.
> > >>>> >> >
> > >>>> >> > I have one more to add:
> > >>>> >> >
> > >>>> >> > [ 93.330539] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 8 at kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:476 rcu_gp_kthread+0x1eaa/0x4dd0()
> > >> > A bit different, but still in the class of a combining-tree bitmask
> > >> > handling bug.
> > > I left it overnight, and am still seeing hangs. Although (and don't catch me
> > > by that) it seems to be significantly less of them.
> >
> > In one of the cases, KASan ended up complaining about something odd going on in
> > rcu_check_callbacks():
>
> Hmmm... Looks like I have a synchronization blow between RCU CPU stall
> warnings and task exit or some such. Promising clue, thank you!

But I am not seeing it. There should be no synchronization issues
with sched_show_task(current), as the current task cannot exit while
it is calling sched_show_task(current). There is a remote-task
sched_show_task(t), but it is invoked only on tasks that are on RCU's
list of tasks that have blocked within an RCU read-side critical section
during the current grace period. Such a task might exit while in in this
critical section, but in that case exit_rcu() will take care of this, and
it will acquire the same lock held across the call to sched_show_task(t).

I suppose this could happen if someone re-enabled preemption late
in the exit() code path and then entered an RCU read-side critical
section, but that would be a bad breakage of the exit() path.

Am I missing something here?

Thanx, Paul

> > [ 7170.779042] BUG: KASan: out of bounds on stack in sched_show_task+0x324/0x3d0 at addr ffff88075315fdd8
> > [ 7170.779042] Read of size 8 by task trinity-c0/15862
> > [ 7170.779042] page:ffffea001d4c57c0 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x0
> > [ 7170.779042] flags: 0x5afffff80000000()
> > [ 7170.779042] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
> > [ 7170.779042] CPU: 0 PID: 15862 Comm: trinity-c0 Tainted: G W 4.0.0-rc3-next-20150311-sasha-00035-g0a45b48-dirty #2052
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff88075315fdd8 00000000ac401e1d ffff880050607cd8 ffffffff9da97e89
> > [ 7170.779042] 1ffffd4003a98aff ffff880050607d68 ffff880050607d58 ffffffff9360eda4
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff880050607d98 ffffffff9da8c9df 0000000000000082 ffffffffa0260429
> > [ 7170.779042] Call Trace:
> > [ 7170.779042] <IRQ> dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:52)
> > [ 7170.779042] kasan_report_error (mm/kasan/report.c:132 mm/kasan/report.c:193)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? printk (kernel/printk/printk.c:1854)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? bitmap_weight (include/linux/bitmap.h:303)
> > [ 7170.779042] __asan_report_load8_noabort (mm/kasan/report.c:230 mm/kasan/report.c:251)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? sched_show_task (kernel/sched/core.c:4526)
> > [ 7170.779042] sched_show_task (kernel/sched/core.c:4526)
> > [ 7170.779042] rcu_check_callbacks (kernel/rcu/tree.c:1225 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1331 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3400 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3464 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2682)
> > [ 7170.779042] update_process_times (./arch/x86/include/asm/preempt.h:22 kernel/time/timer.c:1386)
> > [ 7170.779042] tick_periodic (kernel/time/tick-common.c:92)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? tick_handle_periodic (kernel/time/tick-common.c:105)
> > [ 7170.779042] tick_handle_periodic (kernel/time/tick-common.c:105)
> > [ 7170.779042] local_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:891)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? irq_enter (kernel/softirq.c:338)
> > [ 7170.779042] smp_apic_timer_interrupt (./arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:650 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:915)
> > [ 7170.779042] apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:920)
> > [ 7170.779042] <EOI> ? do_raw_read_lock (include/asm-generic/qrwlock.h:104 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:204)
> > [ 7170.779042] _raw_read_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock.c:224)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? do_wait (kernel/exit.c:1498 (discriminator 1))
> > [ 7170.779042] do_wait (kernel/exit.c:1498 (discriminator 1))
> > [ 7170.779042] ? wait_consider_task (kernel/exit.c:1465)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? find_get_pid (kernel/pid.c:490)
> > [ 7170.779042] SyS_wait4 (kernel/exit.c:1618 kernel/exit.c:1586)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? SyS_waitid (kernel/exit.c:1586)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? kill_orphaned_pgrp (kernel/exit.c:1444)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c:1592)
> > [ 7170.779042] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk (arch/x86/lib/thunk_64.S:42)
> > [ 7170.779042] tracesys_phase2 (arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S:347)
> > [ 7170.779042] Memory state around the buggy address:
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff88075315fc80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff88075315fd00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > [ 7170.779042] >ffff88075315fd80: 00 f1 f1 f1 f1 00 f4 f4 f4 f2 f2 f2 f2 00 f4 f4
> > [ 7170.779042] ^
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff88075315fe00: f4 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f1
> > [ 7170.779042] ffff88075315fe80: f1 f1 f1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f4 00
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sasha
> >

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